Silviya Georgirgieva-Sellvida

MEET THE LOCAL VISUAL ARTIST She is a sensitive and very conscious artist, reflecting her own experiences and observations as a woman and a mother. She is very conscious of the impact of living in a fast-paced technology world and feels that she is a contemporary representative of the new urban society, again, portraying this in her work. She lived and worked in South West London. Silviya was trained and educated in Sofia, Bulgaria where she mastered textile in National Art Academy and graphic design in New Bulgarian University at the country’s most prominent art and design universities. An artist himself, Silviya’s father nurtured her artistic side from an early age and raised her in a highly creative and inquisitive environment. Her rich and expressive art collection comprises still-life paintings in watercolour, pastel and collage abstracts, as well as mixed media collages, portraits, murals and beautiful urban stories. Her pieces often carry a sensual flamenco flavour and tens of meters of hand-painted silk are owned by her customers in Europe, Australia and the United States. Sellvida’s trademark, however, remains the collage, dominating most of her recent exhibitions in popular galleries around London, where she has been living and painting for the last few years. She portrays the urban storylines in such an intriguing and exciting way that she always manages to touch even the most delicate audience. Her compositions are full of ease, colour and positive emotions, making the viewer sink in an abundance of materials, fine patterns and textures. Silviya Georgieva is a representative of the young generation of artists, who reflect today’s culture in their art, teaching us valuable lessons in beauty and sensuality with every piece they create. Over the past ten years, her works have been exhibited in number of galleries, primarily in London. Sellvida's work is now present across Europe as well as in the US, Canada and Australia. Also, some of her artworks are in Private celebrity collection in UK. *Her art and design are part of a Public art project collaboration between the design agency Chorus and H&F Council to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and the neighbourhood